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November 03, 2010

Per Susan Russell: It is no coincidence that today -- November 3rd AKA the Feast of Richard Hooker -- was chosen to launch an international campagin to oppose the proposed Anglican Covenant.

The new website -- No Anglican Covenant: Anglicans for Comprehensive Unity -- offers an impressive wealth of resources, background information and context to inform, empower and engage in the process of pushing back on this ill conceived proposal. And I am honored to listed among a truly amazing cloud of witnesses calling our communion to reclaim its foundational value of Anglican comprehensiveness.

Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the current proposal is coercion in covenant clothing. Scripture and tradition tell us to value the ideal of Covenant. Reason tells us to reject this proposal lest we throw out the baby of historic Anglican comprehensiveness with the bathwater of hysteric Anglican politics.